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• Disable a Button Until All Required Fields are Filled In

  You might have a button in your form—such as a submit button—that you want to prevent the user from being able to click until all required form fields are filled in. This can be done using conditional formatting. The complexity of the conditional... Posted Jun 16 2005, 07:01 AM by Greg Collins with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Data Validation, Buttons, Submit, Conditional Formatting

• Prevent Button Borders from Appearing Bold

  You might encounter a situation where a button in your view appears to have a bold border, as shown in Figure 1. Traditionally in the Microsoft Windows operating system, a bold border designates a default button—meaning it is the one that is activated... Posted Jun 13 2005, 10:38 AM by Greg Collins with | with no comments Filed under: Buttons, Borders

• Create Miniature Navigation Buttons with Centered Arrows

  When your design calls for navigation buttons that are smaller than the default size, your attempts to resize the buttons and font within the designer might prove frustrating at best. The arrows seem to never center correctly. Creating miniature navigation... Posted Jun 09 2005, 10:03 AM by Greg Collins with | with no comments Filed under: Buttons, Extract Form Files, line-height

• Create a Picture Button

  Buttons that display pictures, with or without a text label, are a common practice in Web pages and are extremely useful in certain scenarios. Picture buttons can often convey much more information to a user than text buttons and do so in less space.... Posted Jun 08 2005, 11:37 AM by Greg Collins with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Buttons, Pictures

• Order of Processing at OnClick

  In InfoPath, the order of processing when a user clicks a button is: Rules Code When you write your OnClick event handler, take into account that any rules associated with the button will be processed before the code is reached. This can be very useful... Posted Jul 15 2004, 10:00 AM by Greg Collins with | with no comments Filed under: Rules, Code, Buttons, OnClick

• How to Really Depress a Button!

  Status: Not fixed as of the InfoPath 2003 SP2 release. I uncovered this bug merely on 2004-07-03 and reported it to my Microsoft contacts. I discovered that you can get a button into a depressed state and have it stuck there until you release it with... Posted Jul 03 2004, 06:32 AM by Greg Collins with | with no comments Filed under: Buttons, Workarounds, Bugs